Just bought a truck for $ 200 dollars

Found a 1986 Chevy on C/list. It was 4 miles from my house.Its in bad shape of course. Wrecked in back,rusty,305 knocking,350 trans.slipping,but it has some good parts. Two all most new tires on back, a Edelbrock intake+carb,just last year replaced battery and starter and some other stuff,well worth 200.Any way I bought it and sense it was only 4 miles to my house,I figured I could drive it that far.My friend Loni was following me. I made it about half way home and the trans.quit. I wanted to put a chain on it and pull it but Loni would not do it.I tried reverse and it seemed to work,so I started driving it home in reverse.The engine did not like that.It started knocking like crazy and running hot,smoking and steaming.I was about a 1/4 mile from my house,and boom--threw a rod or something,but it was still going.Pulled into my yard and it died. Loni thinks I"m crazy.

So you have a $200 pc. of Yard Art?

LMAO!!! that story alone is worth the 200 imo [cl
nice score

No , yard art--got enough of that all ready. I"ll take all the good stuff out,scrap the rest. I didnt really need it,but you know how that goes.

You did good! Carb and intake is worth what you paid for the truck, the other usable parts are now free! [cl

You know the rule, no picture, it didn't happen! [ddd

Toad

Not crazy just a RR'r

Boy, they sure aren't making those $200 cars like they used to !

Women hate being the person towing your new find home. When I was married, my wife complained every time I had her pulling me on a chain. One time, she had enough, and towed me so fast I was yelling at her through the windshield. When we got to our house, she said, "There, maybe you won't ask me to do that again !"

Did I mention she is my EX wife ?

Don

donsrods said:

Boy, they sure aren't making those $200 cars like they used to !

Women hate being the person towing your new find home. When I was married, my wife complained every time I had her pulling me on a chain. One time, she had enough, and towed me so fast I was yelling at her through the windshield. When we got to our house, she said, "There, maybe you won't ask me to do that again !"

Did I mention she is my EX wife ?

Don

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Haha! Mrs Tripper was pulling me home one time while talking on her phone. She didn't realize she tore the pulling strap in half about 2 miles from the house until she got home & I wasn't attached anymore!

BoB

Our Zuki's engine seized on a camping trip so we had to walk 1/4 mile back and get the camper and pull it back to the camping spot. It was in a creek bed on a narrow trail with no way to turn it around so we hooked it up and my wife pulled me going backwards back up the narrow trail with 2 tight corners on it. That was the day I learned we define "go slow" differently. Unfortunately she couldn't hear me yelling slow down over the campers 7.3 PSD. That was one heck of a scary ride!

dutch said:

LMAO!!! that story alone is worth the 200 imo [cl
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I so agree with that. Jim

What dutch said

offroadrolls said:

Our Zuki's engine seized on a camping trip so we had to walk 1/4 mile back and get the camper and pull it back to the camping spot. It was in a creek bed on a narrow trail with no way to turn it around so we hooked it up and my wife pulled me going backwards back up the narrow trail with 2 tight corners on it. That was the day I learned we define "go slow" differently. Unfortunately she couldn't hear me yelling slow down over the campers 7.3 PSD. That was one heck of a scary ride!

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Yes, my wife has an entirely different opinion of "going slow" then I have. I had her driving the pull car with a new to me prized ride without much brakes and nonfunctioning power steering one time. As we were nearing the only traffic light on the route, as it was starting to turn yellow, she decided to go through it and opened up the 4bbl carb. The car I was riding in went through the very red light at about 40 mph. When we got to our driveway, she just slammed on the brakes and through the car into park! I have no idea how I missed the car she was driving!
That was the first and the last time I had her help me retrieve a car.

Where is that dredge meme!???

Since we're tellin stories. A few years ago when I was still married. A friend gave me her broken down pickup. Late model chevy 1500 4x4 with a rear end that occasionally had 1 rear wheel lock up. My thought was to drive it the three or so miles home right after it snowed so the tires could slip on the slippery road. All went well for the first 1/2 mile. until a wheel locked up. Now one wheel is locked and the other is spinning twice the indicated speed. It steered kind of funny but It wasn't a big deal because I could bounce it of the snow banks on either side of road. About another 1/2 mile or so and it blows the locked up tire from it sliding along. The next thing to go was the tire that was spinning and now I'm not moving. At this point I put it in 4 wheel drive and head for home with one blown tire not rotating and one spinning twice the speed of the two fronts. within eye shot of my driveway the front drive shaft decides it can't take the strain of trying to pull the rest of the truck and ties it self in a knot. Now I get out of the truck and into the wife's suv. she is between peeing herself from laughing at me bouncing of the sides of the road and panicked about what to do with a truck stuck in the road. I tell her to take me home and I get in the payloader to go back and drag it the rest of the way home. As I turn out of my drive I see blue and red lights from the cop car that had been called about some lunatic bouncing of the snowbanks with a truck with flat tires. Luckily it was a cop I new and got a police escort the rest of the way home.

lol....

I love these stories

I have another. When I was in tech college there was this older woman in our class. It was an electronics school but had more gear heads than nerds in te class. She had a car, I’m thinking Fairlane maybe, that she said had steering problems. Offers it to a couple guys who go to pick it up. Seems the thing is crabbing VERY bad. They take it up on the highway and back them we had toll booths. They come to the toll and because it was so cooked needed to go to the end booth because it would not have fit through a normal booth. I never forgotten this story and as luck would have it I started working with one of the guys a couple years ago. We had a pretty good laugh when I brought up the story. Jim